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Bom in Kentucky, February 12 1809 

Elected to Illinois Legislature 1834 

Admitted to Illinois Bar 18: ^ 

Member of Congress ^ S y 

Joint Debates with Douglass 185° 

President of United States I860 

Emancipation Proclamation, September 13 1862 

Re-elected President J**™ 

Assassinated April 15 18e 



DICKINSON 
BROTHERS 
ENGRAVERS 
PRINTERS 
GRAND RAPIDS 



"I In the occasion ( orresponding to this four years 
ciously direi ted to an im- 
pending civil w.u Ml dreaded it; .ill sought t" 

it. While the inaugural address was 
delivered from this place, devoted altogethei t'> 
- i \ i n v I n without war, insurgent agents 

were in the city seeking t< • destroy it without 
war." 



ANNUAL BANQUET 




INCOLN REPUBLICAN CLUB 



YOUNG MEN'S 
REPUBLICAN CLUB 



GRAND RAPIDS. 




FRIDAY EVENING!, FEBRUARY 27 



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IN COMMEMORATION OF 

LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. 



AUDITORIUM 

<3 R A Psl D RARIDS, IVI I CH IC3 A N . 






1 hort speech known as the "Gettysburg 
Address," is the noblest of Lincoln's public utter- 
It was delivered 1 19, 1 563, 
while the civil war was in progress. Yet it is 
utterly free from any spirit of animosity t" foes; it 
v tlic devotion of a nation to those 
who had died in il 1 in this briel 
mty and pathos which cause it tu rival 
any ol thi more ornate orations delivered on sim- 

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J^OURSCORE and seven years ago our 



ADDRESS 

at the *IF fathers brought forth upon this conti- 

Dcdication Of nent a new nation, conceived in liberty, 

Gettysburg Cemetery. an j dedicated to the proposition that all men 

November lit, 1863. are created free and equal. Now we are 

engaged in a great civil war, testing whether 

that nation, or any nation so conceived and 

so dedicated, can long endure. We are 

met on a great battlefield of that war. We 

have come to dedicate a portion of that field 



I a ted war: but one 
would make war rather than let the nation survive, 
and the other would accept war rather than let it 
perish. " 



Gettysburg as a ^ na l resting-place for those who here 
AddRSS. gave their lives that that nation might live. 
(Continued.) It is altogether fitting and proper that we 
should do this. But in a larger sense we 
can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we 
can not hallow, this ground. The brave 
men, living and dead, who struggled here, 
have consecrated it far above our power to 
add or detract. The world will little note, 
nor long remember, what we say here, but it 
can never forget what they did here. It is 
for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here 
to the unfinished work which they who 
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the 
great task remaining before us, that from 
these honored dead we take increased devo- 
tion to that cause for which they gave the 
last full measure of devotion ; that we here 
highly resolve that these dead shall not have 
died in vain, that this nation, under God, 
shall have a new birth of freedom, and that 
the government of the -people, by the people, and 
for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 



"With malice toward none, with charity 
for all, with firmness in the right, .is God gives 

us t.. sue the right, let us strive cm tn tinish the 

work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to 
care i"i him whoshallhave borne the battle, and 
t.n his widow and orphans; to do all which may 
achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among 
ourselves and with all nations. - ' 



OFFICERS 

Lincoln Republican Club. 



BANQUET COMMITTEES 



ROBERT D. GRAHAM, 
Claud R. Buchanan, 
E. R. Bloomek, 
Harkv L. Ckeswell, 
Milton V-elzy, 
Otis N. Watson, 
Arthur J. Free, 
Clay H Hoi.i.ister, 



President 

1st Vice President 

2nd Vice President 

3d Vice President 

4th Vice President 

5th Vice President 

Secretary 

Treasurer 



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OFFICERS 

Young Men's Republican Club. 



ROY C. LYLE, 
R. M. Ferguson, 
Arthur H. Vandenberg, 
Walter -H. Brooks, 



President 

Vice President 

Secretary 

Treasurer 



John Patton, 
Daniel McCoy, 
A. H. Vandenberg, 
M. H. Carmody. 

John W. Blodgett, 
Charles S. Burch, 
S. W. Barker, 
H. D. C. VanAsmus. 



Rufus S. French, 
Ed. M. Barnard, 
Otis N. Watson, 
Charles M. Owen. 



Roy S. Barnhart, 
Clay H. Hollister, 
Walter H. Brooks, 



Wm. Alden Smith, 
Eugene D. Conger, 
Thomas M. Koon, 



Alfred Wolcott, 
Justus S. Stearns, 
E. J. Adams. 

JQUET 

Alvah W. Brown, 
Wm. H. Boyns, 
Benj. C. Porter, 



Charles B. Kelsey, 
I. F. Lamoreaux, 
Wm. J. Landman. 



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Frank J. Cook, 
E. B. Bell, 
George E. Luther, 

Allen K. Moore, 
W. J. Hurley, 
Glenn P. Thayer, 

Elvin Swarthout, 
Ganson Taggart, 
John C. Brown, 

Harvey L. Brown, 
Alex. Leishman, 
Harry C. Stewart, 

James A. Coye, 
I. W. Woodworth, 
I. J. Lemon, 



CD EC=Of 



Franklin D. Eddy, 
Frank I. Blake, 
J. W. Toan, 

Lester J. Rindge, 
A. S. Musselman, 
Ed. O'Donnell, 



Eugene W. Jones, 
Frank N. Worley, 
Louis Prager. 

John L. Boer, 
Earl R. Stewart, 
Samuel DeLong. 

tvi USIC 

Jacob Steketee, 
Albert Carroll, 
S. J. Hufford. 

Harry L. Creswell, 
H. H. Tinkham, 
Frank L. Bean. 

Sam Braudy, 
John I. Koperski, 
Stanley Jackowski. 

Robert T. Logie, 
John A. Verkerke, 
LeRoy Palmer. 

'OF^TATIOPM 

Oscar E. Kilstrom, 
S. M. Lemon, 
James Schriver. 



Harry D. Jewell, Chairman, 
Assisted by membership of both Clubs. 



" Both read the same Bible, and pray in the same 
i Sod; ami each invokes 1 1 ii aid against iht- other.' 



WE ARE COMING FATHFR ABRA'AM. 




1. We are coming. Fa - ther Abra'am, three hun-dred thousand more, From 

2. If you look a - cross the hilltops that meet the north-em sky, Long 

3. If you look all up our val leys, Wr.ere the grow.ing harvests shine, Tou may 

4. You have called us aud we're commg, by Kichmoud's bkjod-y tide, To 




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Mis-sis-sip-pi's winding stream and from New England'3 sho-e; We leave our plows and 
moving lines of ris - ing dust your vis-ion may des-cry; And now the wind, and 
see our sturd-y far -mer boys last forming in - to line; Aud chil • dren trom then 
lay us down for freedom's sake, our brothers bones beside; Or from foul trea-son's 




workshops our wives and children dear, With hearts to full for ut - ter-anco, with 
in • stan t, tears the clou-dy veil a - side. And floats a -loft our spangled flag in 
mother's knees are pull -ing at the weeds, And learn-ing how to reap and sow, a- 
savage group,to wrench the murderous blade.Aod in the face cf for-eign kes it* 




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but a si - lent tear ; We dare not look be • hind us, but stead-fast • ly be- 

glo - ry aud In pride; And bayonets in the sunlight gleam, and bands brave music 

gainst their country's needs; And a farewell group stands weep-ing at eve - ry cot-tage 

fragments to pa rade ; Six hundred thousand loy -al men and true have gone be- 



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• fore. 

pour, We are coming, Fa - ther Abra'am, three hun-dred thousand more, 
door, 

• fore, 

Chorus. Tbnors. 



we are coming, Our Un - ion to re - store, We are 

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com-ing, Fa -ther Abra'am, with three hun-dred thousand 



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com-ing, Fa - ther Abra'am, with three Lun - deed thous-and more. 

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H»ROGRAM BY 

FURNITURE CITY O Ft G H 



ESTFt A. 



March, ''Drummer Boy of '7(1' 
Selection, "The Burgomaster" 
Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" 
Gavotte, "Dawn of Love 
March, "Bill Bailey" 
Overture, "Crown Diamonds" 
Selection, "King Dodo" 
Caprice, " Blue Violets" 

. "Reene" 
March, "Old and New 



Ellh. 

Luders. 

Volhtedt. 

Brooks. 

Cannon. 

Rollinson. 

Luders. 

Eilenberg. 

Strauss. 

Foreman. 



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da 11 to ©rber, ROY c. lyle 

(Pres. Young Mens Republican Club.) 
3rtO0Cati0Tt, Rev. MATTHEW KOLYN 

BANQUET. 

Untitling Statue of Cincoln, "America" by Audience. 

3ntrobucttoti of (Eoastm aster, Hon. Robert d. graham 

(Pres. Lincoln Republican Club.) 

(Zoastmastcr, ARTHUR C. DENISON. 

Hon. Frederick g. landis, "Ctjc Republican party. 

Mr. HAROLD jarvis, " Sons of the Hear ©lb ^lag. 

Hon. LUTHER LAFLIN MILLS, "Abraham Stncolu. 

Hon. JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, "dbc Keal 2l\lsIjiligtoil. 

Mr. jarvis, " Sworb of Sunker Ejill. 

]. HAMPTON moore, "Organisation.' 

(Pres. National League of Republican Clubs.) 

Mr. jarvis, Selecteb 



" 1 1 we shall suppose that American slavery is one 
.. which in the providence of God 
must needs come, but which, having continued 
through His appointed time, lie now wills to re- 
move, and thai 1 l< gives t" both North and South 
this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom 
ill we discern therein any d( 

parture from those divine attributes which the be- 

God l lim?" 



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